Just keeping in mind some of us in the media industries can’t afford to innovate as much as we’d like, this is an interesting collection of facts with some structure that helps underline what happens when the world of intellectual property changes completely in a handful of years.

You can’t blame everything on the film industry, though, and people who take without giving anything back can do so much more effectively when they leverage technology, but the film industry as a whole has made it hard to give them a fair price via the best and most convenient distribution channels in existence.

Monetization is the answer. Instead of shutting everything down, why don’t they propose some legislation to get some of the money that’s being made through all this downloading?